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THAT VALENTINE.

One Of the tenderest and strongest pas
toral tragedies ever written is Thomas
Hardy's Far From the Madding Crowd"
and the wheel Of its peoples destiny was
turned by valentine.
Many viii remember the story. with its
bright, beautiful, extraordinary heroine, and
the three men whose fate was eTltangled with
her-two good and faithful, one a faithless,
feather headed rogue. Bathsheba Everdene,
q girl as remarkable as her name. but money
less. while visiting her aunt meets Gabriel
Oak. young farmer, who, with none Of the
usual prelininaries to such step, asks her TO
marry him. She is rather fattered by the
proposition: but after a short dialogue with
her wooer she decides she viii not marry him,
because she doesn't love him He tries to
talk her out of her decision: but he has two
qualities which insure him failure with Bath
sheba, humility and a superhuous moiety Of
honesty Gabriel Oak leaves her al last, with
the bearing of one who was going to give his
DAYS and nights 70 Ecclesiastes forever. He
says: Il shall do one thing in this hfe-one
thing certain-that is, love you, and long for
you, and keep wanting you till die" And
he was very much in earnest when he said it,
for his voice had tears in it. and his big
brown hands trembled a quarter of an inch
each way: and when men choke and tremble
IN their love making women are impressed
with the truth OF their feeling if not of their
promises
a few days otter Gabriel's unsuccessful
wooing be learned that Bathsheba had gone TO
q place called Weatherbury. but he did not
learn that she had inherited q magnificent
farm from her uncle, and her purpose in going
there was to live on it and take charge OF it.
A few days later catastrophe overlook
Gabriel His dogs, q couple of earnest but
wrong headed beasts, chased his sheep over
fence and down a chalk pit. killing them to
the last eve, and leaving him a ruined man
financially. He was down lower than he had
ever been, but the abasement brought ezalta-
ton and the loss gain He had left him
dignifed calm he had never before known,
and an indifference to fate which, though it
often makes a villain of man. is the basis Of
his subliInity when it docs not
He started out afoot to find employment as
a bailifT: failing that he offered himself as a
shepherd, drifted TO Weatherbury, playing
his flute at fairs TO further his travel, and at
last found himself hired rs shepherd by Bath
sheba's bailiff, and suddenly face TO face with
Bathsheba herself, now developed into the
supervising and cool woman of business.
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enough piece of statfoner's art it seemed to be.
Bathsheba had purchased il for little Teddy
Coggan, but as she was about to address it 10
him. Liddy, her irrepressible serving maid,
suggested that it would be great fun to send
it to the stupid old Boldwood:" that he'd
worry to death" and 50, with yawn on her
handsome face. Bathsheba assented, and
wrote upon its formidable envelope Farmer
Boldwood's name, and sealed it with large
red seal. bearing the mandatory motto,
MARRY me- She did not know that it was
TO be powerful factor in the destiny of her
handsome reserved neighbor. She could not
see that the red wax sealed his fate, SO very
idly and unrefectinglv was this deed done.
At dusk on the evening of St. Valentines
day Boldwood sat down to supper, as usual,
by beaming fire of aged logs Upon the
mantel shelf before him was a time piece,
surmounted by spread eagle, and upon the
eagles wings was the letter Bathsheba had
sent Here the bachelors gaze was ccntinu-
ally fastening itself, till the large red seal
became as a blot OF blood on the Tetina of his
eve: and as he ate ana drank he still read in
fancy the rIls thereon, although they were
too remote for lis sight: Marry me-" There
in the calm OF his home, under the color OF
his grave mind. the pert injunction, Marry
me- too. on a deep solemnity. He could not
get il ont OF his mind-nOt even when he
slept-alii the next days dawn saw new
and rest less Mr.. Boldwood III place OF the
calm. Indifferent one. He. who knew nothing
OF Jokes gave 10 the foolish valentine sig
nificance Of deepest import. His Imagination
began to play upon the sender. Who was
she. The motto OF the seal. the insistent red
seal, was ever blazing in his mind. Marry
me-" Marry me- He heard and saw moth
ing else. and dimly behind it rose a wonan's
form. now near. now far, now faint and hazy
and then fairly luminous. but never decided
enough 10 settle the question OF her identity.
Before many days he proved by compari-
son that the writing on his valentine was
Bathshe..a Evertlene's- The next Saturday he
looked a- her for the first time in market
He saw her black hair. her correct facial
curves and profile, and the roundness OF her
chin and throat. He saw then the side Of her
eyelids. ewes and lashes and the shape of her
ear. Next he noticed her figure, her skirt,
and the very soles Of her shoes. He thought
her beautiful. and wondered in a frightened
way how this romance in the flesh had es-
capped the possession of man He saw her
adding up accounts with dashing. young
farmer, and grew feverish with incipient
jealousy: he trod for the first time the thresh-
old of the injured lovers hell" All this
time, BaIhsheba, without looking, was con-
scious OF having broken into the dignified
stronghold of Mr.. Boldwcod's mind, Women's
very ribbons seem TO have eyes 10 perceive
these things.
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THE LEGEND OF CHATEAU DOR.

By St Nalo on TIE sea.
Quaintest town in Brittany;
On a worn and sea-swept headland stands the
CTumbling Chateau dor,
browning from its dizzy height,
Over surEinE waters white,
And white sea birds shrily calling round its
towers eveEnore.
Tenantless. and colo. and gray
Are its stately halls to-day,
That once echoed with the footballs OF a woman
wondrCJLs fair;
And The gilded gate IS rust,
And the Currets moldering dust,
Where she watched the wh!ta-sailei ships from
her easement high n air.
Their for years she lived in grace
In that solemn stony place,
Alone with weird wind voices and the waves for
company:
And TO fisher maid, they said.
Earn II 50 hard her bitter bread
As this gentle fair haired woman in her castle by
the sea
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As he was hunting a lodging on the same
night that saw him engaged rs shepherd, he
passed the thin, motionless figure OF woman
BY the church yard wall. He gave her a
CHEEKY good night" 10 which she responded
the same words, in low, sweet voice sug-
gestive of romance-a voice common in de-
scription, but rare in experience. They pro-
longed the interview in a neighborly way,
and she told that she was rather poor and
requested him not 10 say anything about
having seen her. He begged her to accept
shilling from him, and as he touched her hand
in the darkness he fancied that he had felt
himself in the penumbra of very deep
sadness
That night pretty, fair haired Fanny
Robin, Bathsheba's youngest serving maid. was
missing at the farm house. The slim girl by
the churchyard wall and the missing maid
were one and the same, and her fate, too, was
mixed up with that OF the mere prominent
persons IN this story.
Bathsheba, as the farmers said, was such
a shapely maid" that twas small wonder all
ewes were upon her when she appeared at the
market, and ali sounded her praises. Being
shapely as to face and figure, il is not surpris-
ing that she was also vain. and by virtue Of
her recent rise in life little arrogant Even
the gods were guilty OF these weaknesses after
they had moved from Mount Olympus into
the wide sky above it, according to the later
poets
Among her neighbors was a man of fine
appearance and great dignity, who never
looked at her. This was Mr. Boldwood, a
gentleman farmer. who was described as
hopeless man for a woman: had been courted
by skies and seyens, all TO no purpose He
was q bachelor of five and thirty, rich and
handsome, but not at all susceptible. Bath
sheba sat opposite him at church. met him in
market, rode by him on the highway, without
SO much as winning from him an admirlng
glance. She felt injured.
While in this state of mind she brought
home a valentine from the village one even
ing. Il was a gorgeous, embossed affair,
guiltiess in appearance of its power as fac
tor in the lives of the persons whose hands it
was to pass through and into An innocent
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All her heritage had she sold.


To ransom her bethrothed who lay a captive in
Algiers,
And her face grew wan and white
AS she spun by day and night
The gold that bought his freedom had been sancti-
fed with tearsi
From her many lowered home
Day by day she watched the foam.
And the waves that at the castles gate knocked
loud ami ceaseleSsly;
And teyoad the fishing town
Stood with gabled roofs of brown,
Like feet of battered ships enchanted on yel
Low sea
wooers came 10 WIN her glance.
Heroes OF the sword and lance,
Sturdy merchantmen from Rennes who laid their
fortunes al her feet;
But she only gave them nag,
In her sad AMI gracious way.
And her fac seemed pleading mercy. twas so
piteously sweet.
So they left her sadly al
Standing by the gray sea wall,
With one hand upon the tawny deer hound
crouchIng at her side,
And across the sands and sea
Her eyes wandered wistfully,
With the eager. longing look Of patient, waiting
bride
And one day passing ship,
Like a sea bird paused TO dip
In the nay teE { Il lIllLcu us snowy wings again
for flight:
And a ressage came for her.
That st heart and blood astir,
Sent bright bushes 10 her cheek and filed her
splendid eyes with light
He was free. Was free at last:
And no mem'ry OF the past,
With its weary hours OF waiting. dmmed her
happiness that day
AL servifude Of years
Wasted vigils- lonely tears.
Were forgotten as she sought her silent room to
kneel and pray.
Now the days sped swift along.
And Ter heart seemed fun of song.
As she sought her weary tasks singing softly IS
she went;
And the chateau grim and bare
Nov seemed lovable and fair
As she waited for his coming with trusting childs
content
So the winter passed away,
And the joyous holiday
Came when maids and lovers offer prayers TO
good St Valentine.
Through ST. aTalo by the sea
Passed gooSily company,
Armored knights and Queenly women, gayly in
the soft sunshine.
From her tower the chatelaine
Watched afaT that coGrtly train.
And sweet hope stirred her bosom and her
heart beat loud and bold.
AS she saw one stately knight,
Clothed in silver and SanIite.
Foremost of that glitterng group in broideries Of
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CHURCHES:

NJ E. CHURCH. Cor Reynolds and
Mountain Streets. b. F. THOMAS. Pastor
Residence: trenton. Services every sab
bath at II A. VI. and 7. VI. sunday school
$50 A. NJ. Prayer Meeting Thursday even
ing. Glass Meeting sunday afternoon at
2:30 O'Clock
PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH. Cor. Rey-
nolds and Knob streets Ironton. d. A VIII
son, Pastor.
ST. PAUL's EPISCOPAL CHURCH,
Cor. Reynolds and Knob streets. Ironton.
BAPTIST CHURCH, Madison street,
near Knob street.
NJ. F. CHURCH, SOUTH, Fort Hill,
between Ironton and Arcadia. ELISHA
HEADLEE. Pastor.
CATHOLIC CHURCH. Arcadia College
and Pilot Knob. l.. c WERSET, Pastor
High Mass and Sermon at Arcadia College
every SUNDAY al o'clock \. NJ NeSpers and
Benediction of the Blessed Sacrament al >
O'Clock P. II. Mass and sermon at Pilot
Knob Cat holic Church 1t 10:}3 O'Clock A. VI.
Sunday School for children Al 80 O'Clock p.
NJ.
LUTHERAN CHURCH. Pilot Knob.
Rev. ROBERT SNUCkAL. Pastor.
a. NJ. Z. CHURCH, Corner Shepherd
and W aShingtOn streets, IrOnton. y. ABB
ANATHY, pastor.
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CUPID AND PSYCHE DISSEMINATE TROUBLE
Bathsheba answered nothing, and the horse
upon her arm seemed so impressed, that in
stead OF cropping the heritage it looked up.
L think and hope you care enough for me
to listen 10 what I have to TELL"
Bathsheba's momentary impulse at hearing
this was TO ask why he thought that, till she
remembered that. lar from being a conceited
assumption on BoldwoOds part, it was but
the natural conclusion of serious reflection
based on deceptive premises Of her own offer
ing.
Il wish could say courteous batteries to
you, the farmer continued in an easier tone
and put my rugged feeling into a graceful
shape: but I have neither power nor patience
TO learn such things. 1 want YOU for nv wife
50 wildly that no other feeling can abide in
me: but I should not have spoken out had
not been led to hope
The valentine again! Oh, that valentine"
she said 10 herself, but not word to him
If You can love me, say 50. Miss Everdene
II not-don't say no."
Mr.. Boldwood, it is painful to have to
say am surprised so that l don't know how
to answer You with propriety and respect
but am only just able to speak out my feeling
I mean my meaning; that I am afraid I
can't marry you. much as respect you. You
are too dignified for me to suit you, sir
"But, Miss Everdene,H
IL didn't know l ought never to have
dreamed Of sending that valentine-forgive
me, sir-it was a wanton thing which no
woman with any self respect should have
done. Ii you viii only pardon my thought
lessuess, promise never to-
No. no. no. Don't say thoughtlessness:
Make NE think it was something more-that
it was sort of prophetic instinct-the begin
ming Of feeling that You would like me-
Hou torture me TO say it was done in thought
lessness-I never thought of it in that light,
and ! can't endure it All, | wish I knew
how to win you! hut that can't do can
only ask if have already got you. Ii have
not, and it is not true that you have come I'M
Willingly to NE as l have to you, can say
no more"
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There the wan faced woman stood staring out
upon the night.
So they found her, crouching white,
By her easement where the light
OF gray morning through the lattice softly fen in
silver rain,
And they said that il was best
That the weary found rest,
That the bridegroom Death had taken her IN pity
from her pain
Sun-scarred ghassly in decay.
Stan : the chateau on the bay.
And the fishers breathe ave as they pass its
sonber gates;
And they say that every night
OF 81 Valentine light
Streams from out the highest easement, where
Woman stands and waits.
ERNEST De LASCEY PERSON.
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no more.


Il have not fallen in love with YOU Mr.
Boldwood-certainlyI may say that" She
allowed very small smile to creep for the
first time over her serious face in saving this.
and the white row of upper teeth and keenIy
cut lips, already noticed, suggested an idea
of heartIessneSs. which was Immediately con-
tradicteai by the pleasant eyes.
But you will Just think-,n kindness and
condensation think-if you cannot bear with
me as hEssband / fear am too old for
you. hut believe me. will take more care of
you than would many a man of Your own
age. will protect and cherish you with all
my strength will indeed
Batbshelsa-s heart was young and it swelled
with sympathy for the deep natured man who
spoke So simply.
Don't say it-don't. I cannot bear YOU
to feel 50 much, and me to feel nothing.
And l am afraid they will notice US, Mr.
Boldwood. VIII you LET the matter rest
now. cannot think collecte<iIy, / did not
know you were going to say this to me. Oh.
/ am wicked 10 have made you suffer s0n
She was frightened as well as agitared at his
veheinence.
Say, then, that you don't absolutely re-
fuse. Do not quite refuse"
II can do nothing. 1 cannot answer
= may speak to you again on the sub
jectfn
Yes
Il may think of your
YES. | suppose you may think of ne,n
And hope to obtain yous"
t'No-tio not hope; Let us 90 ON
Il viii call upon you again Tomorrow
''No-please mott Give me time"
'.Yes-I viii give you any time,7 he said.
earnestly and gratefully. Il am happier
now
''No-I beg youl Don't be happier if hap
piness only comes from my agreeing. Be
neutral. nr, Bo!siwood. l must think
Il viii wait, be said
And then she turned away. BoIdwooi
dropped his eyes to the ground. and stool
long Ike man who did not know where be
Was Realities then returned upon him Ike
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Mr.. Boldwood walked close to her and babe
her good morning, in a constrained way
Feeling guilty and a little atashed, she slipped
along by the river stones throw off She
heard footsteps brushing the grass, and had
a consciousness that love was encircling her
ike a perfume. She moved on and looked
not back. and at last was completely past the
bend of the river Baidwood was close be-
hind her now,
Miss Everdenct" said he
She treinbled, turned, and said; SGood
morning. His tone was so utterly removed
from all she had expected as a beginning 1t
was lowness and quiet accented; an emphasis
Of deep meanings, their form, at the same
time, being scarcely expressed Silence has
sometimes remarkable power of showing
itself as the disembodied soul Of feeling wan
dering without its carcass, and il is then more
impressive than speech, In the same way, to
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SOCIETIES.:

IRON LODGE, No. 107, I. o. 0. F,
meets every Monday at IL hall, corner Main
and Madison streets. THOMAS BEARD, y.
G.. FRANZ DINGER, Secretary.
IRoNToN ENCAMPMENT, No. %, L.
o. O. r.. meets on the first and third Thurs
day evenings Of every month III odu-f Ell
lows Hall. corner Main and Madison streets.
THoS BEARD. c. Z. FRANZ DINGER, Scribe.
STAR OF THE WEST LODGE, No. l35,
AT. IL A. NJ, meets in Masonic Hall. corner
Main and Madison streets, on saturday of or
preceding full moon. W Il. EDGAR, w NJ.
c. r. PECK, Secretary.
MERIDIAN CHAPTER, No. Il, r. A,
meets at the Masonic Hail on the first and
third Tuesdays Of each month. al : P. VI. b.
SHEPHERD, ii. E. Ii. F. FRANZ pISGER.
Secretary.
--xA VALLEY LODGE, No. 1870,
NfENM KNIGHTS oP HONOR. meets in
2AAhOdd-Fello Hall every alternate
SAAA| Wednesday evenings. W.T.GAY.
$3.50 d. ". b. NEWMAN. Reporter.
EASTERN STAR LODGE, No. 81, A.
F. X \. VI. (colOredl. meets on the second
Saturday of each month.
PILOT KNOB.
PILOT KNOB LODGE. No. 253, A. 0.
Z. w. meets every Friday evening in odd
Fellows Hall.
Pilot KNOB LODGE, No. 156, 1. o. o.
F.. meets every Tuesday evening AT their
hail. CHAS. MASCHNEIER. Secretary.
PILOT KNOB MINERS BENEVOLENT
ASSOCIATION. WN. SEARLE, President.
TREO. ToNNELLIE. Secretary.
IRON LODGE, No. 50, Sons OF HER
MAN, meets on the second and last sunday of
each month. VIM. STEFFEN>, President.
VAL EFFINGER, Secretary
PILOT KNOB LAW AND ORDER
LEAGUE. WM. STEFFENS. President.
THEo. ToSNELLIE. Secretary.
IRON MOUNTAIN
IRON MOUNTAIN LODGE, No. 430.
A. +. X \. NJ. meets Saturday night on or
after the full moon. JNo. WEBB, W. VI.
NJ. SMITH, Secretary
IRON MOUNTAIN LODGE, No. go, l.
o. F.. meets Wednesday night of each week
IRON MOUNTAIN LODGE, No. 293,
A. o. L. w, meets en- the first and third
Friday of each month.
BELLEEIEW.
Mosaic LODGE No. 351, a. F. * y.
NJ. meets on Saturday night of or preceding
full moon. JAS. HILL. W. NJ.
PHOEBE LODGE, No. $50, I. o. o. F.,
meets every Saturday in Masonic Hall.
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"MY HEART Is THiNE.n

When springs first violet on the gale
Her tender perfume filings:
When, deep in some sequestered vale,
The thrush his love tale sings;
When ali bright things Of earth and sky
In hymrs OF praise combine
One som. one pray alone breathe I:
sweet love. wilt thou he minest' IF
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[. =. SENATORS:

[. :. SENATOR'S:
Hon. F. VI. CoCKRELL, WaTTensburg-
Hon. GEO G- VEST. Kansas City.
MEMBER OF CONGRESS:
HoN. MARTIN L. CIARDY. Tenth District,
De Lassus, No.
L. :. LAND OFFICE-JAMES Fl. CHASE,
Register: WM. Il. EDGAR, Receiyer-Iron-
ton. No.
STATE SENATOR:
Hon. J. PERRY JOHNSON, Twenty-fourth
District, FredericktOwn-
REPREsENTATIvE-ITo County-W. L.
CROKER, GOGdwater.
JOHN L. THOMAS, Judge Twenty-SlXth
Circuit, De Soto. Mo.
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these things

The phases of Boldwood's life were orciin-
airy enough, but his was not an ordinary
nature If an emotion possessed him at all it
ruled him. He was always hit mortallv or
he was missed He had 10 light and careless
touches in his constitution either for good or
evil. He saw no absurd side to the folies of
life. and thus, though not quite companion
able in the eyes of merry men and scoffers
and those to whom all things show life as
jest, he was not intolerable TO the earnest and
those acquainted with grief.
Bathsheba was far from dreaming that the
dark and silent shape upon which she had so
carelesslY thrown a seed was a hotbed of
tropic intensity: nor did she realize the pos
sibly great issues of little beginnings The
causes OF love are chiefly subjective, and
of the proposition. No mother existed to
absorb his devotion, no sister for his tender
ness. no lille ties for sense He became sur
charged With the compound, which was genu-
inc lovers love,
Months went by. and be had never even ex-
changed word with the woman whose i'm
age had driven everything else from his
mind. At last he grew used to being in love.
and was less startled by the passion, though
tortured more.
Then he determined to be no longer re-
pulsed by trivialities or distracted by sus-
pense. He called formally upon Miss Ever
dene, but she was not in.
1t was near the end ~ May that. as he went
meditating down the slopes Of his splendid
farm one morning, he saw Miss Ever1ene's
shepherd and his men washing sheep in the
river. while near by stood Miss Everdene in
a new riding habit, the reins OF her horse be-
ing Hoped over her arm.
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NY faltering heart fain oft has tried
To speak my love. to call thee mine
At last the day and hours arrived
So plead my cause. ST. Valentine
Now all nature seemed in love and birds
had drawn their Observation-Disclosures
Apollo has peeped through the shutter
And awakened the witty and fair;
The boarding school bellies in a fiutter
The twopenny posts in despair
The breath of the morning is finging
magic on blossom and spray.
And cOcEneys and sparrows are singing
In chorus on Valentine day
PRAYD.
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HER ANSWER.

II all the year was summertime,
And all the aim of life
Was just to Tilt on like rhyme,
Then would be your wife.
If all the days were August days,
And crowned with golden weather.
How happy then through green clad ways
We two could stray togetherl
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OFFICIAL DIRECTORY, IRON COUNTY.
COIRTS.


Fourth Monday in April and October.
COUNTY COURT convenes on the
First Monday OF March, June, September
and December.
PROBATE COURT is held on the First
Monday in February, May. August and No
yember.
OFFICERS:
\. W. HoLLoNAN. Presiding Judge Coun
" Court.
JOS. q. GARRISON, County Judge, South
ern District.
r. J. HILL, County Judge. Western Dis
trict.
J. :. JORDAN, Prosecuting Attorney.
:. f. BUFORD. Collector
W. \. FLETCHER County Clerk.
Jos. HUFF. Circuit Clerk.
FRANZ DINGER. Probate Judge.
WM. III. WENTWORTH, Treasurer.
Z. w. WHITWOgTH. Sheriff.
:. Il. REYBTRN. Assessor
w y GREGORY. Coroner
!. T. AXE, Public Administrator.
\. W. HOLLONAN. surveyor.
j. b. SCOTT. School Commissioner.
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Love IL enough. why should we care for fama9
Ambition is most unpleasant guest;
II lures Us with the glory of a name
Far from the happy lands OF peace and resi-
Let us stay here in this secluded place,
Made beautiful by loves endearing grace.
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OFFICERS.

PROBATE COURT is held on the First
Monday in February, May, August and No